Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve OC CQ (born October 3, 1967) is a French-Canadian filmmaker. He is a four-time recipient of the Canadian Screen Award (formerly Genie Award) for Best Direction, winning for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2009, Incendies in 2010 and Enemy in 2013. The first three of these films also won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture, while the latter was awarded the prize for best Canadian film of the year by the Toronto Film Critics Association. Internationally, he is known for directing several critically acclaimed films, including the thrillers Prisoners (2013) and Sicario (2015), as well as the science fiction films Arrival (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). For his work on Arrival, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. He was awarded the prize of Director of the Decade by the Hollywood Critics Association in December 2019. His film, Dune (2021), based on Frank Herbert's novel of the same name, premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival; the film received critical acclaim, was a commercial success at the box office internationally, is currently his highest grossing film to date, and earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture, with the film itself winning a leading six Oscars at the 94th Academy Awards.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Dans un cinéma près de chez vous as Self
- 2022 · Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel as Self
- 2022 · The Sounds of Dune: Behind the Scenes with Denis Villeneuve as Self
- 2021 · Question de jugement as Self
- 2020 · La semaine des 4 Julie as Self - Guest
- 2018 · Le cri du rhinocéros as Self
- 2018 · Trumbull Land as Self
- 2017 · Three Kinds of Close Encounters as Self
- 2017 · Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' as Self
- 2017 · Acoustic Signatures: The Sound Design of 'Arrival' as Self
- 2017 · Nonlinear Thinking: The Editing Process of 'Arrival' as Self
- 2017 · Eternal Recurrence: The Score of 'Arrival' as Self
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2014 · Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2004 · Tout le monde en parle as Self
- 2004 · Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche as Self
- 1995 · Zigrail as Denis
- 1988 · La Course Destination Monde as Judge
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Screening Interview: Dune with Hans Zimmer and Denis Villeneuve as
- 1988 · La Course Destination Monde as Self
- Future · Remembering the Ashes: Incendies Through Their Eyes as
- 1990 · In the Footsteps of the Camerosaur as Pilot / Engineer / Teacher / Narrator (voice)